Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 281, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1907 — Page 1

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THIS WEATHEll. Generally fair and warmer tonight una Friday, probably becoming; ulljehtly cooler Friday night. Contract Sabscritsars 9297 Stmt Sales - - - 960 Tola!, Yesterday 102S7 V01. 1, NO 281.NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 19)7. ONE CENT PER COPY. LL NEW Li TERRE HAUTE'S FIREWORKS WILL THEY GET HIM? H0L01TER CENSUSWRONG? Fort Wayne's Representative on State School Board Questions Validity. . WHEAT r Manufacturers Hold Banquet in Interest of Former Rates. Question Raised as to Con Seething Mob Fills Trading Vortex on the Chicago Board of Trade. stitutionality of TwoCent Fare.

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Mi SPEECHES MADE Discuss Needs of Better Street Car Facilities in Hammond Prominent Men Present.

Tho manufacturers of Hammond, twenty-five in number, representing the great interests that have made Ham mond what it is and will make this city what it la destined to be, put their feet under the festive board at the Hotel Carleton last evening and after discussing tho various courses of tho splendid dinner that had been served, they discussed matters of vital inter est to the industries of this region. ii. was a representative lot or men who took their places at the banquet table at 8 o'clock last evening. The kind of men who have done and aro doing things for the advancement of the city in which they have cast their lot. The banquet was a delightful re past and was thoroughly enjoyed by all tho guests. The tables were taste fully decorated, the service was perfect and the menu was the equal of any thing that has been served in this city so far. (Mod 1'VHowMhlp Prevails. There was the spirit of good fellow chip that is always in evidence when the inner man has been satisfied and the smoke from the after dinner cigar begins to fill tho air. W. B. Conkey, tho president of the association, in the capacity of toastmaster, made the first epeech, and as Mr. Conkey was fo several years tho president of tho Illi nois Manufacturers' association, one of the most lnlluentlal and powerful or ganizations of its kind in tho country his remarks were full of valuable sug gestions. Mr. Conkey is a smooth, convincing speaker and he explained how tho Il linois Manufacturers' association pre vented unwise legislation th.at was directed against their Interests and was a power at the state capitol because they acted as a unit and never resorted to corruption to accomplish their ends. The principal topic of discussion was the fluestion of the Monon's freight rates which involved an increase of from $6 to $12 per car between here and Chicago. Hernia Correspondence. W. Thomas secretary of the Manufacturers' association then read the correspondence that had been carried on between the association and President W. II. McDoel of tho Monon railroad, In which Mr. McUoel promised to Bet a date when tho committee of city oidclals and manufacturers could present arguments In favor of the retention of the old rate. John E. Fitzgerald, president of the Hammond Distilling- company, then tooki up the discussion of switching rates In the belt territory and gave his hearers some valuable Information on the subject. He laid stress on the fact that If the Monon's rate remained In vogue all of the other railroads would make a corresponding Increase and It would be a serious blow to the manufacturing interests of the city. A. M. Turner mado a short address In which ho said that the manufacturers' interests were 4 the Interests of all of tho business men, and in fact all of tho citizens of Hammond, for the prosperity of the whole city depends upon tho prosperity of the manufacturer. Street Car Needs Iironrhed. Mr. Conkey took opportunity to speak of tho need of better car service and mado the statement that his company was tho loser to the extent of at least $500 per month because the poor service did not make it possible for his employes to reach their work on time. This statement was followed later in the evening by ona from V. L. Douglas of the Standard Steel Car company, who said that his company would be seriously inconvenienced when It began operations next month if there was not better facilities for transporting the employos of the concern to their work. Mayor Lawrence Becker talked of tho progress the city had made towards giving the manufacurer better surroundings and told how the city would soon have three additional fire stations distributed throughout the city for tho protection of the factory districts. He told of plans for the bettering of the water supply by increasing the size of certain mains and beginning the operation of the old pumping station in addition to the new one. Speaking of the attitude of tho Monon railroad, the mayor said he did not like to resort to coercion, but if It became necessary he "would force this railroad to creep through the city at a snail's pace and impose other restrictions up on them that would make them come to time. Teter W. Meyn and Mr. Douglas made short speeches and the banquet was brought to a close -when a vote was taken to send a communication to the officials of the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago city railway with the request that the service to the Stand ard Steel Car company be improved at once In order to accommodate the em ployes who would begin work there next month.

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Supreme Court to Pass on Matter Bingham's Opinion Holds Out Doubt. (Special to Lake County Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., May 16. An interpretation given to the two-cent fare law by Attorney General James Bingham, taken with an intimation as to the ruling of the supreme court of the state with reference to another law would settle the two-cent fare law as being unconstitutional, and the members of the state administration are In more or less of a panic over the prospects. Attorney General Bingham, In an opinion given to the railroad commission yesterday, held that the two-cent fare law applied only to steam railroads and not to the interurbans at all; In this conclusion he held that it was not the intent of the legislature to Include the interurbans In the two-cent fare law, and also tha tthe Interurbans and the steam roads were so dissimilar In their ofilces as to constitute different classes of transportation companies. Hence, he held that the law could not apply to the Interurbans. So much for the decision of the attorney general. 1005 Law Unconatitntlonnl. The supreme court, within the past few months, has given an intimation that the old railroad commission lawpassed by the general assembly of 1905, is unconstitutional, for the very reason that it did not include the Interurbans within its purview. This opinion was hinted at In a decision rendered In tho case of the Romona Stone company. It was not stated. In so many words that this was the opinion of the court, but tha intimation was given very strong that because of the omission of tho interurbans, the old railroad commission act was special legislation, and aq such, unconstitutional. v - . So far as the railroad commission is concerned now. It will make no difference what the courts say on this point. The law of two years ago did leave out the Interurbans, but the amended law of 1907 Inserted them so that theso interurbans, as well as the steam roads are amenable to the orders of the commission. The 1907 law was made to include the interurbans, for the direct purpose of making the law constitutional, the commission feeling, after the intimation of the court, that the contention of the railroad lawyers was sound, and that the court would declare the 1905 act to be special legislation. Say Ulngliam Is Wrong. But if the attorney general's ruling is to be accepted, a ruling by the supreme court that is to be expected almost any time now will in effect knock out the constitutionality of the twocent fare law. The matter is very simple. It is expected that the court will hold that the railroad commission law of 1905, is uncenstitutlonal, because the Interurbans are eliminated. Every court intimation has been that way, and a case will soon be decided. But the two-cent fare law, according to Attorney General Bingham, applies to the steam roads alone; hence, in accordance the expected ruling of the court this law will be classed as being unconstitutional. Membefs of the state administration, and some lawyers around the state house, insist that the attorney general is wrong in his interpretation of the two-cent fare law. They insist that the law applies to the Interurbans as well as the steam roads, and refer to the fact that in the body of the act the general term "common carriers" is referred to. Charles V. McAdams, one of the members of the railroad commission. said today that it was his understanding that the bill that was passed was to apply equally to the steam and the electric roads alfke. '"That was the original idea," said Commissioner McAdams. ""We had that in mind in order to avoid any possibility that the law might be declared unconstitutional." The commis sioner would not discuss the attorney general's opinion, nor would he give an opinion of his own. Other lawyers in the state house say that the attorney general is wrong. In fact the administration as a whole are fighting for the law's constitutionality, hence declaring that the law includes both the steam and the electric rail roads, despite Bingham's opinion. ORGANIZE RELIEF CORP. William McKinley Relief Corp. No 25S, was Instituted in East Chicago at Williams' hotel last night. A large crowd from Hammond attended, among whom was Dr. 'Mary Jackson, who installed the newly elected officers. The relief corp is well thought of here, and quite a few names are on the charter. The officers Installed were: Dr. Sarah Noble, president; Mrs. Ida "Williams, vice president; Mrs. Otterraan, Junior vice; Mrs. McKay, treasurer; Mrs. KIrshner, chaplain; Mrs. Jones conductress and Mrs. Johnson, sruard.

MAIL CARRIERS SEiy ORE PAY Want to Rise with the Increased Rating of the Hammond Postoffice. At a meeting of the Hammond Mall Carriers' association last night, several matters of Importance were discussed by the members, the most important of which was the increase they were to expect at the beginning of the next fiscal ; year. The complication Laxisfisfxom the tact that at the recent rerating of. posto Sices, Hammond was made a first class office, having the necessary revenue ,of $40,000 a year. Now the carriers want to know If their wages will be changed to correspond. in which case they would benefit by the increase in the salaries of carriers of first class offices which will take place July 1, and amount to $100 a year. A majority of the members do not consider it wise to take steps to se cure a readjustment of the scale, which action would, if followed up, involve nearly five thousand carriers through out the country who are placed In a similar position. If "Uncle Sam's" postmen in this town are not receiving all that is due them, it will be useless to protest the matter as that would imperil their po sitions and accomplish nothing. The popular opinion of the case seems to be that the postal authorities have correctly interpreted the law, but that the flaw lies in the law itself, and only time is necessary to straighten out the difficulty. The mall carriers have been provided with a commodious lounging room in the basement of the federal building which they decided to decorate and make it look home-like so that they might be able to enjoy spare moments of the day before and after the regular hours of work. Lots were then drawn to decide when each carrier was to have his vacation after which matters of minor importance were discussed and the meeting adjourned. DOESH'T SI, 110 PLAYERS City of Traverse Fails to Leave Dock on Time May Go Saturday. The pool-ship City of Traverse did not sail from the Rock Island slip to South Chicago, as announced today. The crew was on deck and the steam was up, but just about the time the snecial trains were to have left Chicago, Captain Jones said to the handful of horse followers assembled on the dock that there was "nothing doing." Why the voyage was declared off is not known, but it is hinted that the prospective players were scared off by the threats of "vag" warrants and that they had found places up town where they could get action for their money without taking a chance of running afoul of the authorities. Eight crowded coaches of Immigrants passed through town this morning over tho Erie on their way to Chicago. T. Edwin Bell is a Hammond man who will see the Jamestown exposition. He left last night for New York and Intends to stop at the exposition before he returns.

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23 FOR SANDY Goats Who Fed on Breakage From Carleton Hotel Relegated to Rear. CITY IS AFTER THEM Enters Suit Against Owner for Allowing Animals to Roam at Large. Poor old "Sandy" and "McDougal." the two old can eaters who are well known to the people of this city who arrival of the Michigan Central depot, are in trouble, having butted into the dignity of the city authorities. A suit was filed this morning in the city court by the City of Hammond against Chas. Sommers, the owner, for allowing the goats to run at large. Two milder mannered or more inoffensive creatures could not be found In Hammond than Sandy and McDougal. Beautiful specimens of the family, they have been admired and petted by the pedestrians along "the great white way" near State street. Bright and early every morning they left their stable and with great glee repaired to a vacant lot in the rear of the Carleton hotel where the breakage of the hostelry from glassware to blue crockery Is thrown and which they used as a pasture. Not a blade of grass nor a single rank herb graces the "pasture." Feed on Bricks and Crockery. A brick structure formerly occupied the site and old bricks and refuse from the demolished building together with a breakfast food of old tin cans and the breakage above referred to from the chef's department of the hotel form an inexhaustible table d'hote dinner which with a light supper of rags and papers, constitutes the attraction for Sandy and McDougal. After a hearty breakfast they would lie down and nod peacefully to the many passers-by who would greet them with a "Good morning Sandy and McDougal" as they hastened on to laborious duties. Returning in the evening they would never fail to bid them good evening. The two old goats were like J familiar landmarks and many visitors to the town would not have known they were in Hammond but for the sight of them. And now the city authorities claim that they are at large about the streets. When the trial is pulled off it is expected that friends of the two poor creatures whose only offence was that they stood together to ward off the attacks of stray canines, will come to the court to prove an alibi. BRUCE LAKE CHATAUQUA NOW SEEMS ASSURRED. Attorney Milo M. Bruce returned this morning from Bruce Lake, Ind., where he has been on business connected with the proposed Chautauqua. At a meeting yesterday afternoon of the citizens and Frank Gearney. gener al passenger agent of the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville road, it was decided to hold .another meeting June 1 and at that meeting to perfect the organization and to put up stock in the new enterprise. Over two hundred people attended and every one seemed enthusiastic over the proposed Chautauqua. There seems to be no doubt but what it will be a success. Already the citizens who are Interested In the holding of the Chautauqua have asked to have stock reserved for them.

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JOHN HUEBHER GEISHIS PAIEIIT West Hammond Inventor of Novel Washing Machine Receives Glad Tidings. John Huebner of West State street received a letter this morning from the United States patent authorities at Washington, D. C, stating that he had been granted a patent on his new fangied Washington machine. Mr. Huebner left for Chicago this morning to sign the necessary papers vthlchare at the- office of Milo Stevens & Co., patent attorneys, through which firm he secured his patent. About three months ago Mr. Huebner devised a new scheme In the way of a washing machine. All that is necessary to do a common sized washing is to sit down in the rocking chair attach ment, which Is a part of the machine and rock away for a few minutes and the work that requires hours of hard labor is done with ease In less than ten minutes. How It Work. The rocking chair is connected to the body of the machine by two steel bars and on each side is supported by two large heavy steel springs, while the base of the machine is operated on the ball bearing plan. When Mr. Huebner first put out machine and submitted a drawing to his patent attorneys. It was refused on the grounds that he had infringed upon the patent rights of a machine which was constructed on nearly the same principles. Determined not to be out witted by a little thing like that, he returned to West Hammond and for two weeks worked hard on bettering the machine and constructing it in such a way that he would not be in fringing upon the rights of prevlou inventors. He finally succeeded and the patent of his device was the re suit. Mr. Huebner is not decided whethe he will erect a small factory In Ham mond or not. He has had an offer by a Chicago concern who wants to manu facture the machines and In addition to paying a good sum they have offered the Inventor a royalty on all machine turned out. FORGIIIG WIFE LIRERATES SPOUSE Although He Drove Her Ou Into the Night, She Pays His Fine. After being driven from her home accompanied by her child, both in their night clothes, In the cold and rain of last night, Mrs. Owen Collen could not see her lord and spouse go to the county Jail In default of his fine, so she meekly came around and settled the bill. Collen came home last night with a souse, and immediately assumed his prerogative of boss of the house and made life miserable for hi3 wife and child, at their residence in Indiana aenue. Shortly after 11:30 he got tired olf talking and with an oath drove Mrs. Collen and their child out Into the street and they were compelled to seek shelter in the home of Mrs. Agues Stack. They were housed lor the night and the police were notified. Collen was arrested and brought to the lockup where he spent several hours cursing the ofScers and everybody la the world. Before Judge McMahon In the local court this morning he pleaded guilty to tie chaxjea of drunkenness

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On Correctness of Figures Depends Complaining Official's Job Alleged Increase Is P.idiculous. Indianapolis, May 16. J. N. Study, uperlntendent of the Fort Wayne schools, said that within a few days a formal protest would be filed with assett A. Cotton, state superintend ent of public instruction, charging that the sohool enumeration of Torre Haute, ust sent into the office of the state uperlntendent is grossly excessive. showing as It does a gain of 28 per cent. Cotton said that the Terre Haute enumeration would be investigated. "Why Study Is Troubled. Study's Interest in tho matter comes from the fact that if the state superinendent allows the Terre Haute enum eration to stand as it was returned to him, W. P. Morgan, tho superintend ent of tho Terre Haute schools will ake the place now held by Study, for the Terre Iiaute enumeration is larger than that of Fort Wayne, and this membership on tho state board Is de termined by the school enumeration from year to year. Terre Haute's enu meration this year, as reported to the state superintendent's ofllce, is 17.939; that of Fort Wayne is 16,634. This places Terre Haute ahead. Declare the lteturnat RldlculuuN. ."The Terre Haute enumeration re turns are ridiculous," said Study. "Ac cording to these figures, Terre Haute shows a gain of 3,931 children of school age over the year 1906. This is a gain of about 28 per cent. Indianapolis, with a populotlon of 225,000 people, only showed a gain of 3,710 in this last year, and Terre Haute beat that about 200, according to the returns made. In my opinion there has been padding of the enumeration rolls, and I shall make a rortnal protest "To dttcmr. Study protested verbally at the meeting ot the Etate board. Labor Parade Is Tlnrred. Indianapolis, May 16. A sensation occurred here when Mayor Bookwalter addressed a letter to the chief of po lice, ordering the latter to prevent a demonstration and parade that was to have been held tomorrow night by or ganized labor. The parade wa planner in protest against the enforced sale by the federal court of a union man s property to defray the costs in t re cent injunction proceedings procured. and was fined $1 and costs, amounting to $11. He was unable to pay the fine and after waiting an hour, his wife had a change of heart and produced the necessarv and liberated her husbnad Collen was sorry for his actions and was overjoyed when Mrs. Collen came in the station with the monay, and they went out arm in arm. THE PATH FINDER AGAIN. The "Path Finders" again made Hammond a visit today while on its return trip to New York. It is the intention to find, if possible, a route to the latter city without "doubling up" on the course in returning. The run will be from here to Indianapolis, thence eastward to Columbus, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. The principle difficulty seems to be in the section between Hammond and South Bend, where it has been found that the course will conflict with the path to be pursuer eastward from Chicago, both in the entrance and departure. It is difficult to see how the "path-finder" can find two separate roads from here to South Chicago and it Is probable they will only use the well known economy route leading from Wolf lake to Jackson park.

To the Advertising Public circulation of the: lake couinty times Contract Circulation 9,297 Street Sales ... 960 Total 10,257 CIRCULATION OF THE HAMMOND DAILY NEWS Contract Circulation ... 646 Street Sales : 0 Total 646 The advertising rates of the Lake County Times are but one to one and one half times larger than The News The circulation of The Lake County Times is over ten times as large as The News.

OLD SPECULATORS BACK Lured By the Excitement They Again Plunge Into the Game Prices Going Up.

Chicago, May 15. The wheat pit fur nished another spectacular exhibition of what can be accomplished when the outside public takes hold of the mar ket. The same seething mob was In at tendance at the opening of the exchange this morning as has been present during the past few days. Spectators and traders, however, did not expect to see such wild excitement aa prevailed last week. The market started off peacefully enough. First prices at tho opening ranged lower, varying from a cent to & cent and a half for the various fu tures. The decline was only momentary as tho public found an opportunity to procure more cheap wheat. Those who sold out at higher prices were waiting to take advantage of Just such a reaction and the way orders poured In was cimply amazing. People who have neglected the grain pits for months and even years have been conspicuous buyers. Tho public ity given the market by the newspapers and the excellent opportunities to make money rapidly have attracted merchants, bankers and professional men, who as a rule do not specu late. As is always tho case these same persons aro always bulls and believ ers in higher values. Just such buying as herein mentioned has caused a runaway bull market In wheat with Individualism lost entirely. Deal In Million Now. In former days a trader who bought or sold one hundred thousand bushels of. wheat at a time was considered a plunger. During tho last week such transactions have he.jft o common and numerous that they are scarcely noticeable. . The chief factor which caused the advance in July wheat from 93 cents at the opening to 98 at the close Is the same class of news which has been in circulation for the past ten days. Both the north and southwest sent in reports of almost Incredible damage to the crop by green bugs in the southwest and the late spring in the northwest. Clamber for the Hull Mile. It was reported that one of the largest elevator concerns in the northwest was short a world of wheat, sold in the eighties when the damage from the southwest first appeared. It Is also well known that houses with northwestern connections hae been fighting the advance in wheat values stubbornly ever since the inception ot the present bull market. The buying today Is attributable to these same traders who are beginning to Join the bull forces. Today at the close of the market all sorts of predictions are in evidence as to the course of the market tomorrow. Some going so far as to predict another five cent rise. Corn and oats showed fair strength, in sympathy with the sensational advance in wheat. Both cereals showed advances amounting to a cent a bushel in corn and about three-quarters in oats. The bull wave has not yet centered In either corn or oats to any extent yet. Several officials of the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Street Car company and of the South Chicago line headed by Superintendent L. Van AUwert of the South Chicago road are taking both lines this afternoon on a, tour of inspection.